Paradigms
eBook - PDF

Paradigms

The Economy of Inflection

  1. 317 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Paradigms

The Economy of Inflection

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Table of contents

  1. Contributors
  2. Preface
  3. Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude
  4. Form and function in identifying cases
  5. Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages
  6. Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms
  7. Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar
  8. Systematic versus accidental phonological identity
  9. Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning
  10. Rasmus Rask’s dilemma
  11. The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies
  12. Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer
  13. Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations
  14. The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana
  15. Author Index
  16. Subject Index
  17. Language Index